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A 17-year-old designed a cheaper, more efficient drone. DoD awarded him $23k.www.yahoo.com/news/17-old-designed-cheaper-more-114901342.html
435 sats \ 2 comments \ @k00b 15 Jun DIY
He made a modular, 3D printed tilting-rotor drone - vertical takeoff/landing but with fixed wings like an airplane for range/efficiency. Other VTOL fixed wings have twice as many motors, with a pair of motors being idle at any time, because the motors don't tilt.
I did a report of titling-rotor aircraft in high school - iirc they never really became a thing because they were too complex. Drones might flip the script on that. Although, I've seen jet powered, fixed wing drones do VTOL without rotors which land on their tail, vertically. I wonder if this design could be improved by doing something similar with rotors.
Also, if you can 3D print most of a drone, it might be time to get a 3D printer.
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34 sats \ 0 replies \ @JesseJames 15 Jun
He should patent that thing and sell them for $100mil lol Somehow I have a feeling he wont stop there... more to come from that kid, smart cookie....
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 15 Jun
“There’s no other platform out there that can do what the V-22 can do,” said former Osprey pilot Brian Luce, who has survived two crashes.
https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/spotlights/2024/the-ospreys-safety-issues-spiked-over-five-years-and-caused-deaths-pilots-still-want-to-fly-it/
Link in OP could have been a fun article itself if not for the BI psyop factor editorialized title... "kids dont even try to invent stuff you'll still be poor forever"
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